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Definition of Fish joint
1. Noun. A butt joint formed by bolting fish plates to the sides of two rails or beams.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fish Joint
Literary usage of Fish joint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"It was asserted, with respect to the fish joint, that Mr. Richardson was the real
inventor, he being at the time an asssistant engineer on the Eastern Union ..."
2. Railway Appliances: A Description of Details Railway Construction Subsequent by Sir John Wolfe Wolfe Barry (1890)
"The object of the fish-joint (which derives its name from the nautical term ...
In the fish-joint (figs. 35 and 36) a plate of iron, called a fish- t ig. ..."
3. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (1884)
"The iron model shows the keys fitted to a chair used by the Caledonian Company,
and now on trial by them, and the wooden one shows a fish joint now on trial ..."
4. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1854)
"Rails between two fishes, or between a fish and a fish-joint chair, are fixed by
three or more bolts and nuts or rivets; and the central bolts or rivets are ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Foundations, Explaining Fully the Principles by William Macfarland Patton (1893)
"33 (14) shows a combination scarf and iron fish- joint, with bolts and keys.
It does not seem to possess any advantage over the plain fish-joint with iron ..."
6. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1907)
"284 is the bracket fish-joint, in which the fish-pieces are of angle iron, ...
The joint is in fact a sort of fish-joint, the ends of the rails being ..."
7. Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1885)
"253; xvi. 247, 288.— Elastic cast-iron sleepers, xxiii. 423.—WH Barlow's cast-iron
bearing plates, xi. 254.—WH Barlow's cast-iron fish-joint sleeper, xvi. ..."
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